The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18
HoNoRED IN DEATH.


Final Services over the Remains of Hem
ry Ward Beether-Plyrnoath Church a
Mass of FIowers-EIoquent Tribute by
Rev. DIR. Hall - Services st Other
Churches.
New YORK, March 12-All Brooklyn was
In mourning yesterday over the death OF
Rev Henry Ward Beecher. The public
offices were closed, business was entirely
suspended; and memorial services were
held in large number of churches in the
vicinity of Plymouth Church. The up
town streets looked deserted.
While the vast crowd of people were
gathering outside of the church the lady
members of the congregation were work
ing like beavers within, dressing the
pulpit and casket with flowers. The whole
interior was turned into perfect flower
garden, and the fragrant perfume of the
roses pervaded the air. The church had
more the appearance OF wedding than a
funeral.
1t was nearly ten o'clock before the doors
were thrown open to those who had been
waiting without the doors impatiently for
nearly three hours. Mr.. Beecher's family
were not present and the family pew was
filled with flowers. Hrs. Beecher was in
the church for a few minutes before the
doors were opened, and left with her sons
before the ceremony.
At 1880 o'clock Rev. DR.. Charles Fl.
Hall, robed in his white surplice and ac-
companied by Rev. 8. B. Halliday, entered
the church and assembled the platform.
When the music ceased DR.. Hall COM
menced to read in low but clear tones
the opening sentences of the Protestant
Episcopal burial service. After these the
double quartette and chorus of sixty voices
sang the burial chant: "Lord, Let Me
Know Mine End.' The lesson was
read by Dr. Hall and a prayer was de-
hvered by Rev. S. B. Halliday. The rest
of the musical programme was as follows:
Anthem, blessed Are the Departed"
"Jesus, Lover of My Soul" II Heard a
Voice." SHARK, Harl, My Soul.n The
organ was presided at by Henry E. Brown
and General Horatio G. King
After the first lesson DR.. Hall COM
menced his Grafton. During it's delivery
there was not dry eye in the house, and
several times he was compelled to stop for
time to gain control of his voice. DR..
Hall said:
1.-THE hand that rests so still yonder laid
aside the pen over page of the unfinished
Lilo VI CurlSG. POSSIBLY Inc ldSb HASH OL
thought as the conviction grew upon him of the
probable end of life was that his life was to be
left unfinished; that he had not told all men
what he would have them know of that precious
revelation. Possibly as the spirit fed
away to be with Christ, whom he
had been serving, the full knowledge
came to him of that shoreless ocean of eternal
lfe which is to know God and Jesus Christ
whom He hath sent. We dwell on one tiny bay
l0fs - IL mn a.
saints of God have already put out on its i'm
measurable spaces, and learned that the life of
Christ is never finished. 1t is the one word Of
God which is ever spoken, echoing again and
again, on and on, with ceaseless re-
verberations, down the centuries. If
there was one thing that stirred
the heart that now rests from it's labors more
than any other that has marked his life and
makes his memory precious to us now it was
his many-sided utterances of Christ living, as
going about among men, the Master who first
and last asks US to believe in Him rather than
to believe what others say about Him.
The radical question of this age has BEEN
Is there faculty of illuminated reason to
recognize living Christ who can talk to u.s.
and by the great communication of this
mind and spirit directly lead US into all truths?
AS monarchies and hereditary Institutions, and
at last African lslavery, have fallen to the
upon an answer 1t will not be put off by
compromises with past orders and in
situations, but renews itself at every turn
echoing in every advance IN science
and art; comes up in every develop
ment of literature and social progress. Is there
a faith in Christ behind the consciousness of
the individual that can be to him the very word
of God-the Illuminated mandatory conscience?
In a country that dreams as yet of a govern
of bn md f1o 40
that question is inevitable, and even
if it should send the sword among us
for awhile in the effort for peace it must
be answered. 1t is not an accident, then, alto
gether, that the man whose life has been
nodded by that question and its answers should
have paused on the unfinished volume of the
Life of Christ He had been a man of the
people, Christward. We remind you that,
though the English-speaking race to-day
mourns his fall and recognizes his loss, Ameri-
cans feel that ne has been a great leader and adj
wiser in the guidance of all manner of substantial
interests; though the Legislature of the State
has paid him an unusual honor of adjourning as
his right; though the press and divines and
orators of all degrees are trying to compass the
mighty theme in glowing words, in words of
exulting grief; that we have had him with
us so long and have lost him; yet
that as he lies there SO quiet we may
look at him as one who has been through all
and in all things an apostle of one supreme
thought, preacher of the everlasting Gospel
of the everything Christ. You who knew him
best, you who have listened to him here in this
church, know well that first, last and always,
in no barren or dreaming sense, his life has
been absorbed in this work and hid with Christ
in God.
In closing his sermon Dr. Hall said:
ga brave and weary heart is here at rest;
hYax1 aF MIR To ora oil 1ofxv Tho
violence of mobs and ruffians in speaking for
the slave; brave to accept the murmurs and
doubts of his political friends when conscience
prompted to part from them; bravest to
wrestle along with a great sorrow when he
could find no earthly help. We honor
him for the courage of his former acts; we love
him and wonder at him for the calm, sweet,
gentle resignation of these last years. God, 1
believe has led him, step by step, to spend his
last days among with wisdom gained by
the cross; tender, gentle, sober wisdom
which enabled him to see the Captain of our
salvation who was made perfect through suf
fering.
DR.. Hall pronounced the benediction and
the vast audience slowly filed out of the
church. 1t was a notable gathering, and
one long to be remembered by those pres
ent. 1t is estimated that fully 25,OO0
people attended services in the various
churches.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage presbyterian
delivered the funeral sermon at the First
Baptist Church; Rev. S. H. Camp (Unita-
rian), Rabbi Harrison and others of other
denominations spoke in the Sands Street
Methodist Church; Rev. W. 7. Dixon (col-
ored Baptist) and others at the Unitarian
Church; and Rev. G. Cuthbert Hall and
others at the First Presbyterian Church.
Bruised Lawmakers.
GODFREY, ILL.,, March IA serious &C
cident occurred last evening on the jack